Dr JAN LOOVERS

Dr JAN LOOVERS The University of Aberdeen School of Social Science

Research Fellow work +44 (0)1224 273138 pref p.loovers@abdn.ac.uk pref Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Edward Wright Building, Room G023, Aberdeen, AB24 3QY, Scotland, UK

Research Fellow

MSc, MRes, PhD

Personal Details

Telephone:	+44 (0)1224 273138
Email:	p.loovers@abdn.ac.uk
Address:	Department of Anthropology, School of Social Sciences, Edward Wright Building, Room G023, Aberdeen, AB24 3QY, Scotland, UK

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Web Links

http://www.abdn.ac.uk/arctic-domus

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Research Interests

aboriginal people, anthropology, Canadian North, circumpolar ethnography, Dene, ecological anthropology, ethnoarchaeology, ethnographic film, ethnohistory, ethnopoetics, exploration, history of science, human-animal relations, fur trade, Gwich'in, Guatemala, indigenous rights, indigenous land claims, land rights, literacy, !Kung, Maya, memory, missionaries, Namibia, pedagogy, philosophy (Deleuze, Leibniz, Spinoza), reading, trails, vernacular architecture, visual anthropology, well-being.

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Current Research

Research Fellow at Arctic Domus project. The research concerns investigating the relationships between humans, dogs, fish, and caribou in the Canadian circumpolar North and the history of domestication in the Arctic.

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Collaborations

Affiliated Researcher at Gwich'in Social and Cultural Institute

Reviewer at Anthropological Review Database

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Research Grants

Jan 2011 – Jul 2012 Fellowship from the RAI Urgent Anthropology Fund

Nov 2009 Bursary from the NORDIC Network for Visual Studies

Oct 2009 Bursary from the Department of Archaeology, University of Leiden, the Netherlands

Oct 2009 NSF Conference Grant

Aug 2009-Dec 2009 Young Guest and Doctoral Researchers' Annual Scholarships for Investigation and Learning (Yggdrasil), Norwegian Research Council, University of Tromso, Norway

Aug 2009-Dec 2009 ERASMUS Mobility Grant, ERASMUS/The University of Aberdeen

April 2009 Bursary from the Department of Anthropology, University of Aberdeen

Oct 2005 - Oct 2008 Sixth-Century Scholarship, University of Aberdeen

Feb 2008 Fort McPherson Community Fund, Fort McPherson

Jan 2008 Principal's Small Grant Fund, University of Aberdeen

Dec 2007 ESF Conference Grant

Nov 2007 Bursary from The Thomas & Margaret Roddan Trust

Aug 2001 Bursary from the Trajectum Program, Utrecht University

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Other Interests

AVID Media, Capoeira

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Publications

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

Loovers, JPL. (in press). 'Making Lobsticks: Marking Histories of Continuing Experiences'. J Ziker & F Stammler (eds), in: Histories of the North: Environments, Movements, and Narratives;. Kendall Hunt Publishing.

Conference Proceedings

Loovers, P. (2011). 'Making Lobsticks: Marking Histories of Continuing Experiences''. J Ziker & F Stammler (eds), in: Histories from the North: Environments, Movements, and Narratives; Proceedings of the BOREAS Conference, Rovaniemi, Finland, October 29-31, 2009. Boise State University, Department of Anthropology/University of Lapland, Arctic Centre, BOREAS final conference, Rovaneimi, Finland, 30-1 November.
Loovers, JPL. (2007). 'Dwelling with Power: Co-management, knowledge and power'. L Kaplan & M Daveluy (eds), in: Resilience in Arctic Societies: Papers from the Third IPSSAS seminar. Fairbanks, Alaska: May 23 to June 3, 2005. International Ph.D School for Studies of Arctic Societies (IPSSAS), Fairbanks, pp. 31-41, Third IPSSAS Seminar, Fairbanks, United States, 23-3 June.
Loovers, JPL. (2007). 'Movement and Continuation: Understandings of Climate and Weather in the Gwich'in Settlement Area'. P Kankaanpaa, S Ovaskainan, L Pekkala & M Tennberg (eds), in: Knowledge and Power in the Arctic: Conference Proceedings. Arctic Center Reports, no. 48, pp. 103-112.

Peer-Reviewed Chapters

Wishart, RP. & Loovers, JPL. (in press). 'Building Log Cabins in Teetl'it Gwich'in Country: Vernacular Architecture and Articulations of Presence'. D Anderson, R Wishart & V Vate (eds), in: About the Hearth: Perspectives on the Home, Hearth and Household in the Circumpolar North. Berghahn Books.

Contributions to Conferences

Papers

Loovers, JPL. (2013). 'How Did Dogs Come Inside the House: Human-Animal Relations in Circumpolar North'. Paper presented at Staff Research Seminar Anthropology Department, United Kingdom, 10/01/13 - 10/01/13,.
Loovers, JPL. (2012). 'Following the Veins of the Earth: Reading Resource Extraction in Circumpolar North'. Paper presented at Departmental Seminar, United Kingdom, 22/11/12,.
Loovers, JPL. (2012). 'Lots of Tea with Biscuits or A Few Biscuits Without Tea: Narratives of doing 'fieldwork' in different places'. Paper presented at Anthropology Student Society University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, United Kingdom, 25/11/12,.

Contributions to Specialist Publications

Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

Loovers, JPL. (2012). 'Diamond Road'. Anthropology Review Database, 17 May.
Loovers, JPL. (2011). 'People of the Lakes'. p. 118-119, Arctic.
Loovers, JPL. (2010). 'Review of !Kung Short Films'. Anthropology Review Database, Anthropology Review Database, 30 October.
Loovers, JPL. (2008). 'Nukak: Ethnoarchaeologogy of an Amazonian People'. Anthropology Review Database, 10 December.

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